What yeast can I substitute for White Labs English Ale??

I ordered two recipes from Austin Homebrew Supply. One was a Budget Brown Ale and the other was a Red Stripe Clone. Both were shipped with yeast and cold packs. I made the Red Stripe over a week ago and during the fermentation process, I learned that the yeast that had shipped probably got too hot and spoiled. I ended up buying another Wyeast Smack Pack from my LHBS. I'll never order Yeast online again.

Well, Sunday afternoon I made the Brown Ale. Oddly, the OG is suggested to be 1.048. Well I measured the OG and it is 1.060. Anyways, I poured the White Labs English Ale WLP002 yeast in and have it fermenting at about 70F - 72F. Well, nothing is happening. My guess it that the White Labs yeast also got too hot and spoiled.

Sorry for the story, I was trying to fill and gaps. So. I have an extra Wyeast American Lager 2035. Can I use this? I know better. I will probably pick up another White Labs yeast tomorrow after work and pitch it again. So maybe I don't have a question.

You are right. I am going to need to learn how to do a yeast starter. Time to invest in a stirplate.

How do I "rehydrate"? I will do some reading about it...

Check the safeale website fermentis.com for rehydrating instructions.

If you do decide to buy online liquid yeast again, I'd pick a supplier that's closer....so it makes it in one day. I have no choice as there is no LHBS here but Austin does get it to me next day.

I tried some White Labs shipped from Atlanta as a test of the cold packs and used a gift certificate someone gave me......the WPL051 seemed like it got pretty damn warm by the time it arrived in August (it was 105 here) but I tried it on a fairly medium OG brew.......it took a week for it to do anything but then it went wild.....hang on, it may go anyway.

S-04. Rehydrate dry yeast, starter for all liquid yeast.

Look here...

http://www.mrmalty.com/yeast.htm

It give comparisons of the White Labs and Wyeast yeasts. WL English ale is the same as Wyeast 1968.